Quotes About Experience

Our entire experience on this planet is determined by how we choose to perceive our reality.

Rough seas make better sailors.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles

do not shrink back from something you desire because it's too risky. Just being alive is risky. Allow yourself to experience whatever your heart desires as if this is your one and only chance to take the ride of your life.

Der Trick besteht darin, den Anfänger weiterhin neben dem Experten bestehen zu lassen.

Because people's experiences differ, what they hear in the music will be different, and how they relate it to broader life experience will also be different. Furthermore, idiosyncrasy in musical interpretation is something to be celebrated rather than condemned. [...] [W]e should think of the score not as the work itself but rather as a useful tool to help us arrive at our individual interpretation of a piece.

Because people's experiences differ, what they hear in the music will be different, and how they relate it to broader life experience will also be different. [...] [I]diosyncrasy in musical interpretation is something to be celebrated rather than condemned. Furthermore, we should think of the score not as the work itself but rather as a useful tool to help us arrive at our individual interpretation of a piece.

When feelings are made available to us isolated, backgroundless, and inherently limited in duration - as they are through music - we can approach them as if we were wine tasters, sampling the delights of various vintages [...]. We become cognoscenti of feeling, savoring the qualitative aspect of emotional life for its own sake.

The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

I will warn you now; adventures rarely, if ever, end. Once you step out on one you can never leave it behind; it follows you forever. Even if you make it home unharmed, you will never make it home unchanged.

Reality is subjective, don't you know that by now? It's how we experience the world that makes it real to us.

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

this whiff of tissue harbors our mental maps—and our memories. In fact, our recollections appear to be all bound up with where we experienced an event.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Yet just as ordinary, quotidian life may harbor possibilities for extraordinary, even ecstatic experience,5 I suggest that such spontaneity is latent within the common flow of human consciousness

Life was meant to be grabbed with both hands and lived .

Like good sex, driving the car was a study in exhilarating restraint and control.

he had no idea what to say to her anyway. We made a mistake warred with We have just enough time for another good go. Experience told him both approaches were very wrong.